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Romania-Ukraine: Sighetul Marmatiei (Sighet) and Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine share nearly €260,000 EU grant to promote cross-border Jewish heritage tourism

February 11, 2021February 10, 2021 by jhe

(JHE) — The towns of Sighetul Marmatiei (Sighet) Romania and Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine are sharing an EU grant to rehabilitate selected Jewish heritage sites and promote cross-border Jewish heritage-themed tourism. The EU’s 2014-2020 Hungary-Slovakia-Romania-Ukraine ENI Cross-border Cooperation Program announced in January it … continue reading →

Portugal: Holocaust Museum in Porto has opened, the first on the Iberian peninsula

February 9, 2021February 9, 2021 by jhe

(JHE) — The first museum on the Iberian Peninsula specifically dedicated to the Shoah has opened in the city of Porto (Oporto), in northern Portugal. Created by the local Jewish community, some of whose members lost family in the Shoah, … continue reading →

Turkey: concern raised over the state of the neglected, centuries-old former synagogue the town of Çermik, near Diyarbakır in southeastern Turkey

February 4, 2021February 4, 2021 by jhe

(JHE) — The endangered state of a centuries-old synagogue in Diyarbakır province in southeastern Turkey has been raised in the Turkish Parliament. Semra Güzel, an MP of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) from Diyarbakır, raised the issue last month, calling … continue reading →

Belarus: Vitebsk authorities want to sell — or give away — the synagogue where Marc Chagall prayed. Investors will get tax breaks and other incentives to restore it or conserve the ruins

February 2, 2021February 2, 2021 by jhe

(JHE) — Authorities in Vitebsk, the hometown of the artist Marc Chagall, want to sell the roofless ruins of the city’s Great Lubavitch beis midrash (synagogue) for a nominal price — or give it away free — to whoever will … continue reading →

Our first Have Your Say of 2021 — Emil Majuk describes how past, present, and future converge in the new exhibit he curated in the former synagogue in Wojsławice, Poland

February 1, 2021February 1, 2021 by jhe

In our first “Have Your Say” personal essay of 2021, cultural activist Emil Majuk describes the new permanent exhibit he curated in the former synagogue of the small town of Wojsławice in southeastern Poland and how past, present, and future … continue reading →

Romania-Ukraine: Sighetul Marmatiei (Sighet) and Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine share nearly €260,000 EU grant to promote cross-border Jewish heritage tourism

Portugal: Holocaust Museum in Porto has opened, the first on the Iberian peninsula

Turkey: concern raised over the state of the neglected, centuries-old former synagogue the town of Çermik, near Diyarbakır in southeastern Turkey

Belarus: Vitebsk authorities want to sell — or give away — the synagogue where Marc Chagall prayed. Investors will get tax breaks and other incentives to restore it or conserve the ruins

Our first Have Your Say of 2021 — Emil Majuk describes how past, present, and future converge in the new exhibit he curated in the former synagogue in Wojsławice, Poland

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